Jazz too Loud for Dragic, Suns: 124-115

Can officially jump on the wagon.

real fast. I want the Suns to trade Amare, however the sweetheart deal everyone expect to get I just don’t think will happen. I do believe teams know the situation with Amare’s contract, and the possibility that he can walk away from a contract next year makes a favorable deal for the Suns less likely.
 I believe the Suns should count there lucky stars if they get a first round pick, cap relief and one serviceable player.
 Gibson, Miller and the Bulls No. 1. Bulls might not part with Gibson, so the Suns might have to take Thomas.

This loss was absolutely terrible to watch. I knew this would happen as you are probably going to lose if you are only up 11 when you make 9 3’s in a half.

Same old Suns. They are just content hoping they outshoot the other team. We need a couple attitude guys that just want to come in play defense and bash the other team around a bit.

just needs to go. He’s gotten dominated by Anthony Tolliver and glued to the ground Boozer. I’d rather see RoLo and Frye play alongside each other. You’ve got the boards/paint presence and the big guy who can shoot from the arc…

Mr Max Contract, 16/5, 4-12 shooting, Boozer 21/20.

The numbers don’t support this, but Nash still looks tired. Especially in the fourth quarter he just seemed listless.

Derron Williams is a tough match-up for a lot of people but he went by Nash like he wasn’t even there. The defense ended up in the zone far more than is “safe” b/c of that. I’ve asked Gentry about using the zone many times. He doesn’t like to do it for more than short stretches. Time and again though we see him going to it far too long. Does he want to do that? No. He has to b/c Nash can’t stay in front of guys like Williams and Rose when his legs aren’t there.

Earlier in the season, Nash was doing much better on the defensive end but now…ugh. Amare’s recent slide is well noted but we can’t ignore Nash either. With Nash though it is physical. His body right now is failing him – at least this week. I am sure he will bounce back but these slides are going to become more frequent as the season grinds on and he continues to age

I mean I hate to say it, but in this

After starting 14-3, we got a little cocky and then lost the recipe. Then there was a little panic mode, and we started tinkering with the line-up and made things worse. The issue is turnovers and jacking up too many 3’s when we have double digit leads. While you hate to slow it down, when we get a lead,we need to run more pick-and-rolls with Amar’e, keep the ball moving and try to get inside or get fouled. And I agree with Sethpo that Nash is committing more turnovers in the last month or so. And Barbosa is trying to force the issue and turning it over as well. We also need to post up JRich more since he can abuse most guards.

I’m not ready to bail on the season. The upside is that there have been so many close losses, that if we win half of those, everything is “Sunny” and we’re near the top in the West. If we can figure out what’s happening, who’s to say we can’t close with a run similar to how we started the season.

But alas, there’s the trade monster lurking. I would like to hope that after re-signing Nash and Hill, and bringing in Frye, that we can find a way to keep Amar’e here. Otherwise, we add Amar’e to the list of Majerle, Barkley and Marion…former Suns stars who were the face of the franchise, who were shipped off, granted for different reasons. The other thing is that I can’t see Amar’e with the Cavs. While he might work with LeBron, we saw last year that he and Shaq can’t co-exist in the paint. When Amar’e drives, Shaq’s man will be there. And there’s not really a trade out there that’s a real draw…not a realistic trade anyway. Kerr, Sarver and Amar’e need to find a middle ground and keep Amar’e here.

and build around Dragic, Lopez, and Clark. That’s probably what Kerr wanted to do all along, since these are his guys.

Hey, not saying it’s an easy gig or that the answers are easy…hence the debate and differences of opinion (what’s yours btw?). The fact that some of us are expressing our ideas says that there are no easy answers, and fans, mgmt and teammates will be divided on what’s right. In the end, I think most of us want to see Kerr and Sarver put their best effort into building a team that can contend….in the short term. We’ve been very close for the past 6 years and the window is closing. We don’t want to go through what the Knicks and Bulls have gone through as mentioned above. And we don’t want to become the NBA version of what the Cardinals were before Bidwell FINALLY decided to spend money to keep good players, and went out and brought in other talent to build on.

It also goes back to what Barkley said in his last years here, when the Suns got stuck in between wanting to contend, but wanting to rebuild with the youngsters. Chuck called Suns mgmt out on it, and next thing you know, he’s in Houston. So which are we trying to do: contend or rebuild (aka…save money)?

Bottom line: if you let Amar’e leave, unless we get a quality starter in return, Nash and Hill will likely want out. And if you let them go,then we’re a lottery team for the next couple years until we can draft and/or entice a couple of stars to come here and develop a chemistry. Most of us are saying we’d like to win and contend NOW.

Then maybe we will be in the lottery with a chance at Wall in 2011. It would just be hard to watch after the run we had from ’04 to ’07.